Cuban conservatism has everything to do with the Cuban Revolution and the early departures of certain sectors of Cubans from Castro’s Cuba. First it was largely elites, those classified as White or nearly so. They set the terms of the Cuban American community. Later, as Cubans felt the brunt of the US embargo and the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuban exiles became increasingly more African. Cuban Americans are largely either those who fled revolutionary ideas or those who were starved by the US because of them.
